"So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans."

"I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage."

"You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them."

"It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political."

"There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times."

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."

"We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity."

"For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable."